Download CEEZER's Q2 2026 Carbon Market Report.

The carbon market's quality transformation is no longer a trend — it is the market.
In Q2 2026, issuance volumes fell 39% year-over-year while buyers paid 54% more per ton retired. The market is decisively rejecting low-quality credits and paying substantially more for the ones that remain.

This was reinforced by three key events in Q2: the CRCF Buyers' Club launched, SBTi V2.0 came into force, and ISO 14060 published its draft standard. Together, they are rapidly defining what corporate net zero requires and ensuring demand catalysts point in the same direction: more buyers, needing more high-quality credits, competing for supply that cannot scale fast enough to meet them.

CEEZER’s quarterly market review of the Q2 2026 carbon market covers:

1. The impact of buyer preference for high-quality credits on credit prices and supply.
2. What an expanding buyer base and regulatory clarity means for the CDR market.
3. How CRCF and the EU Buyer’s Club, SBTi’s Standard V2.0, and the ISO 14060 draft impact the market.
4. Pressures and impact on procurement, and how buyers can plan and respond effectively in H2 2026.

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